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21 Geomechanics For Everyone, Part 5: Caprock Integrity of High-Pressure Injection Processes 27 Ge oConvention 2014: Focus 28 Go Take a Hike 35 Ge ology of the Mount Stephen Trilobite Beds and Adjacent Strata near Field B.C., Yoho National Park New Perspectives on a 127 Year Old Discovery, Part 2 $10.00 JANUARY 2014 VOLUME 41, ISSUE 01 Canadian Publication Mail Contract – 40070050 Shaped by industry & powered by the breadth and depth of IHS NOW AVAILABLE IHS AccuMap® A MORE POWERFUL & INTUITIVE INTERPRETATION SOLUTION Developed with extensive industry feedback, a complete user interface refresh enables easy navigation with the addition of the Microsoft® Office Ribbon and mouse-driven pan and zoom functionality. Mapping and plotting are now enhanced with editable contours, flexible postings, and transparency for all layers, including Land. Expanded engineering capability increases reservoir knowledge with both the Classic Production Graph and the new Material Balance Graph. AVAILABLE NOW IHS AccuMap® IHS.com/NewAccuMap Shaped by industry & powered by the breadth and depth of IHS JANUARY 2014 – VOLUME 41, ISSUE 01 ARTICLES NOW AVAILABLE Geomechanics For Everyone, Part 5: CSPG OFFICE Caprock Integrity of High-Pressure Injection Processes ............................................... 21 ® #110, 333 – 5th Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 3B6 2013 Gussow Geoscience Conference – Importance of Rock Properties in Tel: 403-264-5610 Web: www.cspg.org Unconventional Reservoirs .................................................................................................... 26 IHS AccuMap Office hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 4:00pm GeoConvention 2014: Focus ..................................................................................................... 27 Executive Director: Lis Bjeld A MORE POWERFUL & INTUITIVE INTERPRETATION SOLUTION Tel: 403-513-1235, Email: [email protected] Event Coordinator: Kristy Casebeer Go Take a Hike .............................................................................................................................. 28 Tel: 403-513-1226, Email: [email protected] Geoscience Coordinator: Kelsey Green Photo of the Month ....................................................................................................................... 31 Tel: 403-513-1225, Email: [email protected] Member Services: The 2014 CSPG Executive Committee .................................................................................. 32 Developed with extensive industry feedback, a complete user Tel: 403-264-5610, Email: [email protected] Publications and Website: Emma MacPherson Email: [email protected], Tel: 403-513-1230 Geology of the Mount Stephen Trilobite Beds and Adjacent Strata near Field B.C., interface refresh enables easy navigation with the addition of Co-Manager, GeoConvention 2014: Aileen Lozie Tel: 403-513-1227, Email: [email protected] Yoho National Park, New Perspectives on a 127 Year Old Discovery, Part 2 ........... 35 the Microsoft® Office Ribbon and mouse-driven pan and Database Administrator and Accounting: Kasandra Amaro Maternity leave until January 2014 DEPARTMENTS Corporate Sponsorship: Lis Bjeld zoom functionality. 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Under no circumstances shall the CSPG and its officers, directors, formed as layers of sand, calcite, and iron oxide collected around a nucleus formed by AVAILABLE NOW employees, and agents be liable for any injury, loss, damage, or expense arising in any manner whatsoever ® from the acts, omissions, or conduct of any third-party user. shells, leaves, or bones. The concretions are osme of the largest of their kind in the IHS AccuMap IHS.com/NewAccuMap world. Photo by Brett Frostad. Designed and Printed by The Data Group of Companies, Calgary, Alberta. RESERVOIR ISSUE 01 • JANUARY 2014 3 Canada’s Energy Geoscientists 31st Annual CSPG Squash Tournament February 6-8, 2014 Early Bird Registration ends: Wednesday January 8th, 2014 For more information and to register today visit www.cspg.org EXECUTIVE COMMENT A message from 2014 Past President, Paul Mackay CSPG Welcome EXECUTIVE Home PAST PRESIDENT Paul MacKay • Shale Petroleum Ltd. Twelve months ago the CSPG had a very members had made to their society. It was [email protected] Tel: 403.457.3930 enthusiastic incoming president who was very simply – moving. What also hit me filled with ideas about what the CSPG was there was the same enthusiasm that I PRESIDENT could become. Twelve months later the had seen in the under 35 group. Dale Leckie • Nexen Inc. [email protected] Tel: 403.613.0458 CSPG has a president who may be a bit more circumspect but has not lost any I was in a room that was loud with laughter PRESIDENT ELECT enthusiasm or desire for the Society. Often and genuine joy at the other end of the age Tony Cadrin • Journey Energy Inc. we equate enthusiasm with naiveté and spectrum but the similarities greatly out- [email protected] Tel: 403.303.3493 know that with time the individual filled weighed the differences. It was these types FINANCE DIRECTOR with enthusiasm may become a cynical shell of events that stick in my mind as I reflect Gord Stabb • Durando Resources Corp. whose only desire is to play out the string on the past year. [email protected] Tel: 403.819.8778 and hand the reins over to someone else. FINANCE DIRECTOR ELECT This is not the case this year and in reality This is not to say that there were Astrid Arts • Cenovus Energy it is rarely the case when it comes to the no accomplishments. Your Board [email protected] Tel: 403.766.5862 presidency in this Society. accomplished great things in the past year. The Society entered into a new relationship DIRECTOR with our sister societies (CSEG and Alexis Anastas • Nexen ULC As president I have had the opportunity [email protected] Tel: 403.699.4965